To BROWN BAG or NOT TO BROWN BAG..THAT IS MY ?

[JERSEYGIRLINSI]

Just curious....People always talk about how they don't want to take the apps. so as to leave room for the main course or dessert....can you have anything you don't finish wrapped to go? I have the following ADR's:
LTT, LC, Ohana', WC, HDDR.....
Yes or No ? Frowned upon, or It's all good??
Thanks

 

[Maistre Gracey]

It looks as though many of your ADRs are for all you can eat type restaurants.
Just my opinion, but I find it bad form to take left overs from an all you can eat.

MG

 

[JERSEYGIRLINSI]

It looks as though many of your ADRs are for all you can eat type restaurants.
Just my opinion, but I find it bad form to take left overs from an all you can eat.

MG

Bad form to take leftovers? Wow, really! I often find myself not eating half of anything I order with handling the baby, and making sure he has eaten. I certainly wouldn't want the food bar attached to the back of my rental car. We did pay for the pleasure to dine at these great places right? I didn't know that this would be so taboo.

 

[maccalovah]

I have always been under the impression that you aren't allowed to take leftovers from an all-you-can-eat place....

 

[ducklite]

No doggie bags at buffets. If you are worried about not being able to eat enough, you might be better off at ala carte restaurants.

Anne

 

[dcgrumpy]

I have always been under the impression that you aren't allowed to take leftovers from an all-you-can-eat place....

People would be able to fill their plates with food they had no intention of eating just to take it with them.

 

[Maistre Gracey]

Bad form to take leftovers? Wow, really! I often find myself not eating half of anything I order with handling the baby, and making sure he has eaten. I certainly wouldn't want the food bar attached to the back of my rental car. We did pay for the pleasure to dine at these great places right? I didn't know that this would be so taboo.

Think about it for a minute....
You would have folks eating their fill, then heaping a plate to the ceiling and taking home tomorrow's lunch and dinner.
I'm not implying you would do that, but it's likely that many would.

MG

 

[triplefigs]

No doggie bags at buffets. If you are worried about not being able to eat enough, you might be better off at ala carte restaurants.

Anne

At 1900 Park Fare for dinner (a buffet), DS got very ill with a high fever. My DH had to leave to take him back to our room (we were staying at the GF). The CM was very gracious and gave me 2 empty boxes to get DH some dinner and dessert to take to the room. I realize this was not the ordinary situation, but we were very appreciative (and tipped extra!) for the great service and help.

Now, at the non-buffet TS restaurants (LeCellier, WCC, Plaza, and Prime Time) we were given boxes to take home our desserts and kid's leftovers (we snacked on it at night while watching the Disney Channel).

 

[MomofKatie]

Plus, unless you are going right back to your room and your room has a fridge, you might not want to risk your food spoiling in the FL sun. I'd think it would be a big hassle to carry around a 'to-go' box at the parks.

We did carry our CS desserts with us when we could oder a cookie or brownie- something portable.

I am with everyone else- I don't think you should take extra food away from a buffet or all you can eat restaurant. I don't think any of the buffets would even supply you with a 'to go' box.

 

[Maistre Gracey]

At 1900 Park Fare for dinner (a buffet), DS got very ill with a high fever. My DH had to leave to take him back to our room (we were staying at the GF). The CM was very gracious and gave me 2 empty boxes to get DH some dinner and dessert to take to the room. I realize this was not the ordinary situation, but we were very appreciative (and tipped extra!) for the great service and help.

I find this to be a good exception. I'm happy they accommodated you!

MG

 

[mickeyfan2]

Bad form to take leftovers? Wow, really! I often find myself not eating half of anything I order with handling the baby, and making sure he has eaten. I certainly wouldn't want the food bar attached to the back of my rental car. We did pay for the pleasure to dine at these great places right? I didn't know that this would be so taboo.

It is in bad taste to take food from an all you can eat place. You are to stay until you have eatten all you can, so you ate what you paid for. Now if you do a sit down, you can get it to go. I have taken mostly my dessert that way and they are happy to do it. I also take into account the time of the year. Food cannot be eatten after very long at 95 degrees. I only do it if I am heading back to the resort and I have a fridge.

 

[mickeyfan2]

At 1900 Park Fare for dinner (a buffet), DS got very ill with a high fever. My DH had to leave to take him back to our room (we were staying at the GF). The CM was very gracious and gave me 2 empty boxes to get DH some dinner and dessert to take to the room. I realize this was not the ordinary situation, but we were very appreciative (and tipped extra!) for the great service and help.

This was a generaous offer and I would have expected that or they would have not charged you for his and son's dinner.

 

[JERSEYGIRLINSI]

MG,
I get what your saying..but at the same time HDDR,& LTT have other things going on..and with my little man (22months) I'm sure that we all (well not my DH, he always seems to get completely full-might have something to do with me being the one with our DS when eating) will be preoccupied...and maybe we don't eat our dessert -can we bring it with us. This is what I mean.
Duckl,
How can we go to all al a carte's when everyone raves about all that we have ADR's for? Wouldn't be the full DISNEY experience..and these are a little more baby friendly(if possible AT Disney)
Triple,
Yeah..this is more along the lines of my questioning. Not for the greedy aspect, the reality of being a good attentive parent, who is totally in the moment with their childs FIRST Disney Experience.
Thanks for all the responses-This just goes to show the whole Tomato - toe-ma-toe thing!

 

[mickeyfan2]

Maybe when DH is full he can look after his son and you can eat.

 

[JERSEYGIRLINSI]

Maybe when DH is full he can look after his son and you can eat.

In a MORE PERFECT WORLD
Great guy-dad-husband-cop, not always On top of the Help Ya Out List!

 

[philaround]

I think you will be able to get your leftovers packaged to take with you at HDDR. While this is an "all you can eat" reastaurant it is NOT a buffet. Large buckets of food are brought to your table for you, and only for you. When DW and I where there last May we where served 2 or 3 large pieces of BBQ chicken each plus about the same quantity on BBQ ribs, serveral ears of corn, all the beer, wine, sangria, or soda we wanted AND THEN we got THE LARGEST strawberry shortcake I have seen in quite a while. I know from the CM who served us that anything we did not eat went right in the trash can. With all the deluxe and moderate rooms now having a refrigerator standard and refrigerators available on request at the value resorts the only problem I see with asking for a doggie bag is not getting back to your resort for several hours. As long as you can get the food refrigerated within a reasonable time frame I don't see a problem with any restaurant other then the buffet locations.

edited to add:

I know many people take a few rolls, muffins, pieces of fruit, and other easily carried food items with them when they leave one of the buffet restaurants and have not been stopped by the CMs. PLEASE NOTE I SAID A FEW, I THINK SOMETHING WOULD BE SAID IF ANYONE TRIED TO FILL A SHOPPING BAG OR BACKPACK ON THE WAY OUT. My DW always takes one banana from the CP breakfast and I have, on occasion, taken a muffin.

 

[JERSEYGIRLINSI]

Phila,
Right...a piece of fruit, rolls, dessert..exactly. I knew this wasn't as out there as some think. Maybe it the NorthEast thing we have in common

 

[garada3]

Is it a doggy bag, a styrofoam box or should I bring a (small) plastic container for left overs?

With 3 kids, I think we might have a few untouched desserts from our CS and (non-buffet) TS meals.

I was thining that a pack of disposable plastic containers might be handy item to pack. I hate crumbs in my backpack!

Thanks!

 

[PrincessTrisha]

I admit - we took leftovers while were at Disney on the Dining Plan at sit down - non buffet restaurants.

I brought some zipper bags (the ones with the actual zippers because I find they seal so much better and do not accidently come apart) and a couple of small plastic containers with lids.

At the castle at dinner I had ordered my god daughter chicken fingers from the kid's menu - they let her order from there even though she is 11 (paid OOP and saved her credit) and she ate my steak and I had some of my mom's lamb - at the end of the meal I took out my zipper bag and discretely tossed in the chicken fingers - or so I thought - the waitress had come up behind me - she actually encouraged me to take the remaining pretzel rolls that were in our basket - she said that bringing our own bag was a good idea because some of the take out containers are so big.

It was definitely convenient to have my own bags and containers. It made packing up leftovers super easy. (one more tip - if you are taking meat - like steak or chicken, I find it easier to cut it in the restaurant into bite size pieces and then take it home because I generally don't have a sharp knife in the hotel room)

 

[maccalovah]

I admit - we took leftovers while were at Disney on the Dining Plan at sit down - non buffet restaurants.

I brought some zipper bags (the ones with the actual zippers because I find they seal so much better and do not accidently come apart) and a couple of small plastic containers with lids.

At the castle at dinner I had ordered my god daughter chicken fingers from the kid's menu - they let her order from there even though she is 11 (paid OOP and saved her credit) and she ate my steak and I had some of my mom's lamb - at the end of the meal I took out my zipper bag and discretely tossed in the chicken fingers - or so I thought - the waitress had come up behind me - she actually encouraged me to take the remaining pretzel rolls that were in our basket - she said that bringing our own bag was a good idea because some of the take out containers are so big.

It was definitely convenient to have my own bags and containers. It made packing up leftovers super easy. (one more tip - if you are taking meat - like steak or chicken, I find it easier to cut it in the restaurant into bite size pieces and then take it home because I generally don't have a sharp knife in the hotel room)

See, I don't think there's anything wrong with taking leftovers from a sit down restaurant, where you're ordering off of a menu, as opposed to a buffet. It would be like getting a doggie bag at ANY sit down restaurant ANYWHERE- I think it's pretty standard for restaurants like these to offer to wrap anything you haven't eaten. But I've never, ever seen anyone take anything home from a buffet (including rolls or desserts, etc). If they offered doggie bags at buffets, it would give "all you can eat" a whole new meaning!